Adam McLane

Category: social media

  • Facebook Morphs Blogging Again

    Blogging, by very nature, is a fluid art. Just a few years ago I thought I was pretty slick because I could journal on my computer using Microsoft Word. Flash forward a few years, to around 2000, and I learned that I could take those Word documents and convert them to webpages. It was cumbersome…

  • 3 Reasons Gen Y Doesn’t Get Twitter

    Great little read here from Millenial Marketing about Twitter adoption of middle adolescents. (The core group for explosive growth of Myspace and Facebook.) To summarize here points, Notre Dame marketing professor Carol Phillips suggests these 3 reasons Twitter hasn’t popped in that megamarket. 1. Twitter adds no meaningful functionality that Facebook doesn’t. (Calendar, messaging, photos,…

  • Facebook Land Grab

    Last night’s chaos on Facebook was a fascinating display of “why not to be afraid of internet rumors.” Millions of people anxiously waited online staring at facebook.com/username/ hoping that they could register their name as a vanity URL. I participated in a lively chat on Mashable last night, there was a lot of anxiety, silliness,…

  • Goodbye Creepy Guy

    Goodbye Creepy Guy

    For as long as we’ve lived in this house I’ve tried to keep our wireless network open. My feeling has always been that access to the internet should be free and high speed whenever possible. And since I love open wireless networks when I travel I thought it was only fair that I shared in…

  • The economy of hate

    The economy of hate

    I probably spend more time on the internet than anyone else I know. I’ll admit it, I’m a web dork. Let me try to spell out a trend I see on ministry websites, youth ministry sites, personal blogs, Facebook, and the rest of the social media/social networking map. If the news (Media 1.0) was subtitled…